I'd say buy CDs from a credit union, or municipal bonds (riskier though). In fact maybe the best thing to do for now is to move your banking over to a credit union if there's one you can join, or to a smaller local bank if you can't and you're with one of the big bastards.
After that, in terms of stock, an S&P index fund will have some of the best and most consistent returns, and all you're really betting on is 'line goes up.' One could try to find an individual ethical company or companies, like maybe publicly traded B Corps, but even those I have doubts about.
And real estate isn't getting any cheaper, so if you already own a home, I suppose you could buy another one and rent it at cost. You get equity, and the renters presumably get below market rent. Maintain the property, give the renters right of first refusal if you decide to sell, and sell at marginal markup rather than market rate and you'd probably be doing better than your average landlord. This is the toughest route to follow while not being a bastard.
It's not the power coming in like this as such but how close it is to the downspout. And I mean, if the power has to be there, the downspout really should be moved.
Am I the only person wondering why the downspout is right by the electrical wires in the first place? I don't know all the things there are to know about code, but that seems bad, if for no other reason than it can result in things like this.
When civilians want something, it's always "those poor corporations!"
At least with the bill focused on military you can put forward the importance of "combat readiness", "supporting the troops", "taxpayer dollars", and other things that politicians often say they care about.
They are examples of complex and difficult tasks that humans are capable of when working together, implying through comparison reordering society is also achievable.
The worst person you know is still just a meatbag, same as anyone else. Jeff Amazon himself has no power but what others, operating within one weird system, grant him.
Problem is we let the pricks run things, or we become the pricks ourselves.
Trick is figuring out how to stop both those things from happening. Must be tricky, given how it keeps happening. But we're a clever species. We landed on the moon, took pictures of the backside of our star, spilt the atom, etc. We can figure out good economics and governance.
I like some of it, but not everything. Customizable is good, but if it's all preloaded and unmodifiable then it's more a mockery of self-expression, isn't it?
I mean, you do, but...
Often you just attest citizenship. Not sure if it's checked on the backend or not. And illegal immigrants often have SSNs, just not their own. That's how they can work much of the time.
Not that I expect many non-citizens are voting. The risk to reward ratio makes it really unattractive. Even citizens struggle to bother.
It's always niche stuff. Music by non-headliners. Indie films.
I honestly think text/pdfs will actually stay easy. Text, even manga I suspect, is lightweight to host, so it's easier to keep online. By contrast a flac rip of a band that's never gone gold will be too heavy to host on a web page, but too niche to keep dedicated seeders on a torrent.
This is an excellent policy position, if only the argumentation wasn't dogshit. I am begging everyone even vaguely lib-left, stop writing like this. If you're trying to write a petition, open letter, or public statement, for the love of god write it for people other than yourselves or just don't say anything at all.
Internet censorship is bad for alphabet people, but it's also bad for the straights. It's bad for everyone. It's just bad.
Freedom is for everyone. And Heritage wasn't coming to the parade anyway.
I'd say buy CDs from a credit union, or municipal bonds (riskier though). In fact maybe the best thing to do for now is to move your banking over to a credit union if there's one you can join, or to a smaller local bank if you can't and you're with one of the big bastards.
After that, in terms of stock, an S&P index fund will have some of the best and most consistent returns, and all you're really betting on is 'line goes up.' One could try to find an individual ethical company or companies, like maybe publicly traded B Corps, but even those I have doubts about.
And real estate isn't getting any cheaper, so if you already own a home, I suppose you could buy another one and rent it at cost. You get equity, and the renters presumably get below market rent. Maintain the property, give the renters right of first refusal if you decide to sell, and sell at marginal markup rather than market rate and you'd probably be doing better than your average landlord. This is the toughest route to follow while not being a bastard.